Improvement in methods of buoying vessels



-J. C. WHEEDEN. Y Method of Buoyinvg Vessels. u

No. 196,960. Patented Nov. e, 1877.

N4PETERS, Hmm-LHNClGR/PrlERY WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JAMES C. WHEEDEN, OF BALTMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS OF BUOYING VE-SSELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,960, dated November6, 1877 application iled October 5, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES C. WHEEDEN, of Baltimore city, in the countyof Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Methods of Preventing Vessels from Oareening, which isfully set forth in the following specification and ac v companyingdrawing, in Which- Figure 1 isv a section view of the hull of a vesselwith casks attached. Fig. 2 is a section of the hull of a vessel withcasks attached in a modited manner. Fig. 3 is a side view of a vesselwith casks attached.

My invention relates to an improved mode of preventing vessels that havedischarged their cargo, and are without ballast, from careening orrolling over; and my invention consists in attaching a line, toair-tight casks, floating on the Water at the sides of the .vessel, andpassing the line from each cask under the keel and up the opposite sideof vessel, Where it ismade fast.

A'represents the hull of a vessel; B, the airtight casks, which may bethe ordinary Watercasks with Which all vessels are provided. The line dis attached or made fast to the cask and passed under the keel,stretchedk handtaut, and made fast to the opposite side of the vessel.lf preferred, the line which is attached y to the cask may besecured tothe keel in any convenient manner, as shown in'Fig. 2, instead ofpassing entirely under the vessel and up vter along each side, to Whicha line is secured,

an'd'passed under the keel and up the opposite side, and made fast.

JAMES O. WHEEDEN.

Witnesses: f

JNO. It. SPEDDEN, CEAS. B. MANN.

